Hi. Can't you just switch it on and forget about it? For me, I like having the peace of mind that if I were to be involved in a serious incident, I'd have some evidence as to what happened. I delete well over half of my journeys without even looking at them.
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Hi. Can't you just switch it on and forget about it? For me, I like having the peace of mind that if I were to be involved in a serious incident, I'd have some evidence as to what happened. I delete well over half of my journeys without even looking at them.
gaj104
New Member
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- London (SW)
Yeah, take your point re: serious accident, but then one could argue I should keep a camera on with me at all times, in my car, on my scooter, on a night out (that would make interesting footage). Then it feels like a bit Orwellian. Partly I'd like to put my faith in witnesses and passersby, but then again in London it would seem a lot of people have their own agenda.
Also, I still feel it might change my riding style to be a bit more aggressive, in the sense that I have the halo effect from wearing it, whereas in reality, a vehicle isn't going to notice I'm actually wearing the camera.
Saying that, can the contour be set to continious mode, i.e. keeps recording over existing footage? What I'm saying is I'm partly lazy when it comes to booting up the PC and plugging in the camera to delete it
Also, I still feel it might change my riding style to be a bit more aggressive, in the sense that I have the halo effect from wearing it, whereas in reality, a vehicle isn't going to notice I'm actually wearing the camera.
Saying that, can the contour be set to continious mode, i.e. keeps recording over existing footage? What I'm saying is I'm partly lazy when it comes to booting up the PC and plugging in the camera to delete it
Here is my footage.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKVNzYYUtk
Pretty uneventful morning commute. There was quite a strong headwind, but no major incidents.
I haven't included any of my evening commute, heavy rain and high winds meant the footage was pretty blurred!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKVNzYYUtk
Pretty uneventful morning commute. There was quite a strong headwind, but no major incidents.
I haven't included any of my evening commute, heavy rain and high winds meant the footage was pretty blurred!
Yeah, take your point re: serious accident, but then one could argue I should keep a camera on with me at all times, in my car, on my scooter, on a night out (that would make interesting footage). Then it feels like a bit Orwellian. Partly I'd like to put my faith in witnesses and passersby, but then again in London it would seem a lot of people have their own agenda.
Also, I still feel it might change my riding style to be a bit more aggressive, in the sense that I have the halo effect from wearing it, whereas in reality, a vehicle isn't going to notice I'm actually wearing the camera.
Saying that, can the contour be set to continious mode, i.e. keeps recording over existing footage? What I'm saying is I'm partly lazy when it comes to booting up the PC and plugging in the camera to delete it
I follow you, but I think as a cyclist you're more likely to be involved in something where it's just your word against another, and no witnesses. I don't have anything to back that up other than a gut feeling though.
I personally don't feel it has changed my riding style, but it's certainly something to be wary of.
Unfortunately the Contour cannot be set to overwrite existing footage. I believe the newer models (Plus and Roam) have a format button which will wipe the card, but the HD which I have does not. I'm lazy too, and have run out of card space on a couple of occasions because I had not got round to deleting the footage.
Mine's sent.
Thought I'd put a section of commute through a park. Lovely autumn colours, and a squirrel.
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlyIyS_Tz0[/media]
Thought I'd put a section of commute through a park. Lovely autumn colours, and a squirrel.
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlyIyS_Tz0[/media]
You do realise it's a video camera and not a device that generates a protective force field
.No point wearing one if it puts you in more danger but I would be extremely concerned that an inanimate object makes you more aggressive with large metal boxes.
Bassjunkieuk
Veteran
- Location
- London
For me having the camera on has made me much more aware of my riding and general behaviour, it's also great as a tool for learning from past experiences!
As much as it could be used in the event of an accident it could also be used against me for some stupid moves I pull - I'm damn sure that whilst I felt rather comfortable gunning it down Brixton Hill between the bus and car lanes this morning it would look rather different on the cam (not least because it distorts the already tight spaces to look even smaller ;-))
It's also great to have for those rather rare occasions where weird sh!t happens such as the other evening when I caught a Zafira with deployable spoiler after the boot lid popped open when they hit a bit of a bump :-)
As much as it could be used in the event of an accident it could also be used against me for some stupid moves I pull - I'm damn sure that whilst I felt rather comfortable gunning it down Brixton Hill between the bus and car lanes this morning it would look rather different on the cam (not least because it distorts the already tight spaces to look even smaller ;-))
It's also great to have for those rather rare occasions where weird sh!t happens such as the other evening when I caught a Zafira with deployable spoiler after the boot lid popped open when they hit a bit of a bump :-)
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
I have a little sympathy for gaj's viewpoint - having a camera makes it a fraction harder to stick your head in the sand and pretend that minority of drivers didn't really do anything wrong.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
Simple. Vimeo allows vids with music and no hassle about copyright - county blocking and added adverts - that youtube does. And youtube wasn't a requirement of entry!
But you have to pay if you want to upload more than x amount of HD videos.
Thanks for putting it on youtube. It certainly wasn't a requirement for entry but with most people uploading to youtube i thought it would be a good idea to make a playlist for them
Simple. Vimeo allows vids with music and no hassle about copyright - county blocking and added adverts - that youtube does. And youtube wasn't a requirement of entry!
YouTube only does country blocking and adverts if you ask it to.
If you don't want hassle about music copyright on your videos, don't put other people's music you don't have permission to use on your videos. Vimeo will still have to take them down under request from the copyright holder, they just are even less proactive about it than Google.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
The first 15 videos have now been linked on the Cycle Video Day website. I'm not even half way through yet, and I know there are more videos to come (mine included!!).
I'll try and link more tomorrow night! I have an ironing to do and bed is calling!
I feel like the fella in the school, pic who appears twivce in the same shot (position 2 and 7 are both me!)
*EDIT* ow Bugger I replied to the wron post, this was meant for GAZ and his playlist...now, how do I go about changing that...er.,..
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
daSmirnov
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Horsham, UK
Submitted here, just got internet access today after moving. So it was first thing on the to-do list.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JI2_yMyGBI
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JI2_yMyGBI
small fish
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Manchester
So - Having had a dress rehearsal... it would be great to see a cycling britons represented in this project.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kqz5p
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kqz5p
Someone has already pointed out it's a Saturday, not many commuters that day.
